Primavera P6: Planning & Scheduling Construction Case Study

Explore the Primavera P6 toolbar basics, switching between icon and label views, and learn essential project actions like open, import/export, copy, cut, and delete, plus layout and enterprise tools.

Create and add a new enterprise (EPS) for your Primavera P6 project, rename the Primavera course series, assign the example guardroom, and set the project placement within enterprise structures.

Create and name a project, set an enterprise calendar from scratch, define a default calendar, and configure working days, holidays, and national holidays for accurate scheduling.

Kick off by defining the WPX and its metrics within primavera p6 planning, then prefer drone data over drawings to understand the project’s levels, durations, and resources for accurate scheduling.

Read architectural, structural, and MEP drawings to understand a project, capture finishing details, sections, and elevations, and translate drawings into a practical activity list for planning.

Create a construction work breakdown structure (WBS) by defining structural, architectural, and mechanical disciplines and organizing activities from ground level to finishing works.

Organize construction activities in the engineering log by defining work packages and activities within the work breakdown structure, coordinating architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and low current scopes.

Learn how to build and sequence an activity list for a construction project, assign predecessors and successors, manage durations, calendars, and resources, and review the sequence in a bar chart.

Learn to build and sequence the activity list for a construction project, coordinate departments, define relationships such as finish-to-start, and schedule waterproofing after footing and column work.

Develop and sequence the activity list for MEP works, defining first and second fix, containment placement, and slab relationships to manage scope when drawings are minimal.

Build and sequence your construction activity list, focusing on insulation, first and second fix milestones, MEP integration, and architectural–structural links amid the curing lag of the concrete slab.

Build and sequence architecture activities, linking them to structural tasks via templates. Define durations, group finishing works, and integrate blockwork, tiling, waterproofing, and painting for coordinated scheduling.

Learn to sequence activity lists in Primavera P6 for a construction case study, linking waterproofing with finishes, tile works, walls vs floors, painting, and final testing.

Add and sequence construction activities in Primavera P6, including recommissioning, testing and commissioning, before final finishes; define durations, set dependencies, and secure team buy-in for a coherent activity list.

Build and sequence the engineering activity list in Primavera P6. Organize structural and civil tasks, submissions, reviews, and link and sort by activity ID for clear project progression.

Sequence your activity list by linking excavation, structural, and procurement tasks, analyze float and critical path, and plan procurement integration for ebc projects with delivery timelines.

Discover how to build and sequence procurement activities in Primavera P6, including subcontractor and supplier prequalification, approvals, material submittals, and manufacturing and delivery to the site.

Create your first contractual milestones in Primavera P6 by turning key activities into milestones, linking project start and finish, and using milestone summaries for clear reporting.

Create and link non-contractual milestones for engineering and procurement start and finish, establish predecessors and successors, and validate milestone sequencing in the Primavera P6 chart.

Create milestone filters in Primavera P6 to show milestone activities with start and finish dates, activity IDs, and duration, producing a clear higher-management milestone report.

Learn how to create and structure activity codes in Primavera P6 to organize, filter, and sort construction activities by engineering, structural, architectural, and submission stages.

Identify and add missing activities in a Primavera P6 construction schedule by verifying scope, correct soft relationships, and completing facade elements, doors, windows, and first fix before coatings.

In Primavera P6 planning, split facade works into two activities for RC facade and metal louvers, linking them to milestones, estimating durations, and monitoring subcontractors to track progress.

Learn to access and create filters in Primavera P6, use global and user-defined filters to display targeted activities, and understand the critical path versus the longest path.

Explore the difference between the longest path and the critical, using negative float examples and filtering to show how all activities may appear critical when the completion date is surpassed.

Apply global filters in Primavera P6 to view milestones, monitor negative float, and review updates. Define two-week to six-month look-ahead windows to reveal critical and noncritical activities and relationships.

Create your own customized filters in Primavera P6 by organizing activity codes, engineering drawings, and resources, applying date and progress criteria, and saving global or project-specific filters for reuse.

Customize your bar chart in Primavera P6 to visualize activities, baselines, remaining work, and critical paths with milestones, then adjust colors, shapes, labels, and options for clear reports.

Customize bar charts and timelines in Primavera P6 by adjusting the time scale to year, month, and weeks, using ordinal dates, and saving a clear layout.

Learn to group and sort activities in Primavera P6, clarify schedules with WBS views, show summaries and grand totals, and tailor views by code or activity type for progress reporting.

Explore the Primavera P6 activity tab and learn to customize activity details, manage durations and types, assign resources, set predecessors and successors, and add codes and notes.

Explore how total float and free float interact with constraints in Primavera P6, using a construction case study to optimize scheduling while maintaining logical, traceable constraints.

Design and save customized layouts in Primavera P6 to streamline two weeks look-ahead planning, applying filters, time-scale changes, and named 'save as' views for easy reuse and accurate reporting.

This lecture explains how to add costs to resources in Primavera P6, calculate selling prices, and allocate labor and other resources to activities, producing an S-curve for project cost control.

Navigate resource management in Primavera P6 for a construction scenario, learn to recalculate assignment costs, adjust prices, and verify resource loading and budgeting changes.

Discover how to allocate thousands of resources in Primavera P6 with a single click by exporting resource assignments to Excel, editing budgeted units, and importing back.

Learn to compress the schedule to meet the contractual date by fast-tracking and crashing on the critical path, manage constraints, approvals, and resource shifts while watching the longest path.

Optimize your resource plan by analyzing the resource histogram, balancing labor and equipment costs, and shifting activities across months to smooth cash flow and meet project goals.

Optimize project outcomes by adjusting lead times, resources, and testing and commissioning durations, examining calendar effects and holidays to influence the critical path.

See how Primavera P6 analyzes schedules with the schedule log and view lock options. Learn to interpret external relationships, constraints, and critical paths for accurate planning.

Discover resource leveling in Primavera P6 by using a daily cap to smooth workloads while respecting constraints, and learn to set the maximum per day in the resources tab.

Master resources leveling in Primavera P6 by analyzing active, period-specific activities and costs, identifying high-value tasks, using trial-and-error within time windows to optimize scheduling without violating constraints.

Review the schedule by verifying the scope is fully covered and all activity dependencies are achievable, while verifying contractor assumptions, timing of equipment and labor, float, and cash flow.

Update the schedule by creating a baseline copy, assigning the baseline, and updating progress in the monitoring and controlling phase, including earned value and critical path analysis.

Explore time impact analysis for extension of time claims, detailing events, milestones, and documentation to prove delays and assess excusable versus compensable delays.